Rival families seek new lives in colonial Australia
Fair Condition - Jacket is worn and creased, with foxing on the title page and tape along the inner hinge. Otherwise pages are clean and readable.
Ikey Solomon makes his living from theft in nineteenth-century London, with the resourceful Mary Abacus as both accomplice and mistress. When their fortunes collapse, separation and transportation carry them towards Van Diemen's Land, where survival demands new skills and uneasy alliances. In Hobart Town, Mary learns to brew and builds a business through which she hopes to secure a future. But Ikey's wife Hannah remains a determined rival, and the conflict between the women threatens the families growing around them. Bryce Courtenay begins his Australian trilogy with a broad historical novel of ambition, resentment and reinvention, following people who try to escape their origins while carrying old loyalties and hostilities into a new world.
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